pocket mouse
any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail • Hypernyms: pocket rat • Hyponyms: silky pocket mouse, Perognathus flavus, plains pocket mouse, Perognathus flavescens, hispid pocket mouse, Perognathus hispidus, Mexican pocket mouse, Liomys irroratus • Member Holonyms: Heteromyidae, family Heteromyidae
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